CAHIMS ALL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔In order to prove medical malpractice, an injured person must prove all of the
following EXCEPT:
a. The health provider had a duty of reasonable care.
b. The health provider did not meet the minimum standard of care or failed to obtain
informed consent.
c. The health provider's failure to meet the standard of care was the primary cause of
the injury.
d. The injury resulted in physical harm. - ✔✔d
✔✔The Affordable Care Act is slated to:
a. Provide better access to insurance
b. Improve public health
c. Increase Medicaid and Medicare payments
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔Lack of informed consent can lead to accusation of:
a. Battery
b. Negligence
c. Malpractice
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔Fraud is:
a. The intentional misrepresentation or concealment of relevant facts
b. Unnecessary costs as a result of poor management, practices, or controls
c. Excessively or improperly using government resources
d. Pre-determined non-economic damage - ✔✔a
,✔✔Which of the following is not true of HIPAA?
a. New employer plan may limit coverage due to pre-existing condition
b. Improves access to long term care
c. If health insurance is lost, improves access to group health plan
d. Protects use of health savings accounts - ✔✔a
✔✔The HIPAA Security Rule:
a. Ensures compliance by the workforce
b. Requires covered entities to use security measures to protect health information
c. Anticipates threats to security and integrity of information, and protects against them
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔The following government agency enforces HIPAA:
a. FDA
b. AHRQ
c. JC
d. OCR - ✔✔d
✔✔A government agency that is an important source on research about patient safety
and privacy is:
a. AHRQ
b. JC
c. OCR
d. FDA - ✔✔a
✔✔A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program strives to:
a. Improve the quality of documentation in the health record
b. Reduce fraud and abuse
c. Improve the coding and reimbursement process
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔The health record is:
a. A communication tool among care providers
b. A tool to improve quality and safety for patients
c. The legal business record of a healthcare organization
d. all of the above - ✔✔d
,✔✔HITECH addresses which of the following barriers to using health information
technology?
a. There is a shortage of health IT support staff.
b. Patients cannot afford Personal Health Records.
c. Doctors prefer to use paper charts.
d. Patients don't trust doctors who use computers.
e. There are not enough electronic health record vendors. - ✔✔a
✔✔Which of the following is an example of HITECH's concept of "meaningful use" of
health IT?
a. Having a nurse enter the doctor's orders into the EHR
b. Printing prescriptions legibly so they can be entered accurately into the information
system
c. A primary care physician electronically exchanging a patient's laboratory data with a
medical specialist
d. Patients using the Internet to obtain information about a patient's disease
e. A pharmacist using a drug interaction checker - ✔✔c
✔✔What kind of job role is likely to be a part of a REC?
a. Software engineer
b. Research informatician
c. Implementation manager
d. Chief medical information officer
e. Privacy and security officer - ✔✔c
✔✔HITECH's Workflow Process and Redesign specialists address which of the
following problems?
a. Hospital workflow needs to be changed in order to increase safety when using health
IT.
b. Physician office workflow needs to be made more efficient.
c. Doctors clinical processes need to be redesigned so computers can decrease costs.
d. Office furniture has to be redesigned to accommodate computers.
e. Electronic health records have to fit in with a practice's workflow. - ✔✔e
✔✔Which of the following barriers to health information exchange are NOT addressed
by HITECH?
a. There are few agreed-upon technical standards for health IT.
b. The transfer of information between institutions is not secure.
c. There are few statewide examples of health information exchange.
, d. Hospitals may lose competitive advantage if they exchange information with others. -
✔✔d
✔✔Which of the following is a major part of the HITECH vision?
a. Reduction of out-of-pocket costs to patients
b. Assuring that primary care physicians earn as much as specialists
c. Increased transparency and efficiency
d. Patients taking more responsibility for their own health
e. Insurers not discriminating against patients who have pre-existing conditions - ✔✔c
✔✔The incentives for health IT are focused on getting
a. as many physicians as possible to purchase electronic health records.
b. physicians to use health IT to improve healthcare quality.
c. vendors to develop systems with the newest features.
d. patients to use health IT for medication management. - ✔✔b
✔✔The HITECH Act provides funding for collaborative research projects known as:
a. SHARP
b. HITCR
c. CRPIT
d. SECURE - ✔✔a
✔✔Which of the following HITECH programs supports health reform efforts that
emphasize use of health information technology?
a. Virtual Physician Programming
b. Clinical TECH Modeling Centers
c. Curriculum Development Centers
d. HITECH Doctor television programming - ✔✔c
✔✔As the HITECH Act progresses into implementation, monetary incentives through
CMS will require the use of certified EHRs. Which option explains the benefit to the
practitioner for using a certified EHR?
a. Early financial gains and long-term financial benefits
b. HITECH assistants for implementation
c. Premium quality EHRs that fit practitioners' workflow designs
d. Standardized and approved functions for health information exchange - ✔✔d
✔✔The lecture talked about a "misalignment of incentives" as it pertains to health IT.
Which of the following statements reflects this issue?
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔In order to prove medical malpractice, an injured person must prove all of the
following EXCEPT:
a. The health provider had a duty of reasonable care.
b. The health provider did not meet the minimum standard of care or failed to obtain
informed consent.
c. The health provider's failure to meet the standard of care was the primary cause of
the injury.
d. The injury resulted in physical harm. - ✔✔d
✔✔The Affordable Care Act is slated to:
a. Provide better access to insurance
b. Improve public health
c. Increase Medicaid and Medicare payments
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔Lack of informed consent can lead to accusation of:
a. Battery
b. Negligence
c. Malpractice
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔Fraud is:
a. The intentional misrepresentation or concealment of relevant facts
b. Unnecessary costs as a result of poor management, practices, or controls
c. Excessively or improperly using government resources
d. Pre-determined non-economic damage - ✔✔a
,✔✔Which of the following is not true of HIPAA?
a. New employer plan may limit coverage due to pre-existing condition
b. Improves access to long term care
c. If health insurance is lost, improves access to group health plan
d. Protects use of health savings accounts - ✔✔a
✔✔The HIPAA Security Rule:
a. Ensures compliance by the workforce
b. Requires covered entities to use security measures to protect health information
c. Anticipates threats to security and integrity of information, and protects against them
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔The following government agency enforces HIPAA:
a. FDA
b. AHRQ
c. JC
d. OCR - ✔✔d
✔✔A government agency that is an important source on research about patient safety
and privacy is:
a. AHRQ
b. JC
c. OCR
d. FDA - ✔✔a
✔✔A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program strives to:
a. Improve the quality of documentation in the health record
b. Reduce fraud and abuse
c. Improve the coding and reimbursement process
d. All of the above - ✔✔d
✔✔The health record is:
a. A communication tool among care providers
b. A tool to improve quality and safety for patients
c. The legal business record of a healthcare organization
d. all of the above - ✔✔d
,✔✔HITECH addresses which of the following barriers to using health information
technology?
a. There is a shortage of health IT support staff.
b. Patients cannot afford Personal Health Records.
c. Doctors prefer to use paper charts.
d. Patients don't trust doctors who use computers.
e. There are not enough electronic health record vendors. - ✔✔a
✔✔Which of the following is an example of HITECH's concept of "meaningful use" of
health IT?
a. Having a nurse enter the doctor's orders into the EHR
b. Printing prescriptions legibly so they can be entered accurately into the information
system
c. A primary care physician electronically exchanging a patient's laboratory data with a
medical specialist
d. Patients using the Internet to obtain information about a patient's disease
e. A pharmacist using a drug interaction checker - ✔✔c
✔✔What kind of job role is likely to be a part of a REC?
a. Software engineer
b. Research informatician
c. Implementation manager
d. Chief medical information officer
e. Privacy and security officer - ✔✔c
✔✔HITECH's Workflow Process and Redesign specialists address which of the
following problems?
a. Hospital workflow needs to be changed in order to increase safety when using health
IT.
b. Physician office workflow needs to be made more efficient.
c. Doctors clinical processes need to be redesigned so computers can decrease costs.
d. Office furniture has to be redesigned to accommodate computers.
e. Electronic health records have to fit in with a practice's workflow. - ✔✔e
✔✔Which of the following barriers to health information exchange are NOT addressed
by HITECH?
a. There are few agreed-upon technical standards for health IT.
b. The transfer of information between institutions is not secure.
c. There are few statewide examples of health information exchange.
, d. Hospitals may lose competitive advantage if they exchange information with others. -
✔✔d
✔✔Which of the following is a major part of the HITECH vision?
a. Reduction of out-of-pocket costs to patients
b. Assuring that primary care physicians earn as much as specialists
c. Increased transparency and efficiency
d. Patients taking more responsibility for their own health
e. Insurers not discriminating against patients who have pre-existing conditions - ✔✔c
✔✔The incentives for health IT are focused on getting
a. as many physicians as possible to purchase electronic health records.
b. physicians to use health IT to improve healthcare quality.
c. vendors to develop systems with the newest features.
d. patients to use health IT for medication management. - ✔✔b
✔✔The HITECH Act provides funding for collaborative research projects known as:
a. SHARP
b. HITCR
c. CRPIT
d. SECURE - ✔✔a
✔✔Which of the following HITECH programs supports health reform efforts that
emphasize use of health information technology?
a. Virtual Physician Programming
b. Clinical TECH Modeling Centers
c. Curriculum Development Centers
d. HITECH Doctor television programming - ✔✔c
✔✔As the HITECH Act progresses into implementation, monetary incentives through
CMS will require the use of certified EHRs. Which option explains the benefit to the
practitioner for using a certified EHR?
a. Early financial gains and long-term financial benefits
b. HITECH assistants for implementation
c. Premium quality EHRs that fit practitioners' workflow designs
d. Standardized and approved functions for health information exchange - ✔✔d
✔✔The lecture talked about a "misalignment of incentives" as it pertains to health IT.
Which of the following statements reflects this issue?
